Cyborgs might fight at the same night

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Cyborgs might fight at the same night Sunday 15th of February 2009 11:24 AM

By Guilherme Cruz

Photo Andrey Klagenberg

Almost recovered from an injury in the arm, during a fight in Sengoku, Evangelista "Cyborg" is returning to the rhythm of training and is eager to debut in Strikeforce. "I'm almost 100%, I already can make a cool training and I’m waiting for the confirmation of the next fight... I believe I will fight on April 11^th. They came into contact with me and said I could fight", revealed the fighter, who can fight for the first time at the same event that his wife, Cristiane "Cyborg” Santos, who fought in EliteXC, event purchased by Strikeforce.

"It’ll be a different experience... I’m always at her corner and in separate dates, but hopefully it will confirm her fight and mine, it will be nice, interesting for the event and also for us, another motivation. We’re more focused, even because it will be our first fight in the contract and I’m in the stack, working seriously and I believe that I can do a nice job there", said the fighter, commenting the “dream fight" between his wife and Gina Carano, fight that was in EliteXC’s plans.

"I told Cris to submit, not to hit in her face, but she said she’ll punch only in the nose (laughs),” said Cyborg. “Everybody tells her not to hit Gina in the face, but this is only another motivation for her (laughs). Cris is very dedicated in training, is only training with man and that makes all the difference. She has a lot of desire to fight, goes ahead the whole time and Gina will be scared when starts the fight, but I think they won’t put this fight already".

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